Now, this is just crazy!
California mother Paula Morris is claiming that Monster energy drinks killed her 19-year-old son, Alex Morris.
Last year, on the morning of July 1, Alex Morris went into cardiac arrest. He was then rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The lawsuit filed at Alameda County Superior Court says that Morris would not have died of cardiac arrhythmia last year if he did not consume two cans of the drink everyday for the last three years of his life.
However, this is not the first case we’ve heard where Monster Beverage Corp. has been blamed for a teenager’s death. Last year, 14-year-old Anais Fournier, who drank two 24-ounce cans of the drink, also passed away and her family sued the company as well.
“Our allegations in the lawsuits are the same and that’s the peoples deaths were caused by these energy drinks and, more specifically, the defendants failure to warn about the dangers,” said Alexander Wheeler, an attorney representing the plaintiffs in both cases.
The corporation claims that no blood test was conducted in Fournier’s case, so there was no proof that she died from drinking their product. They insist that she died of natural causes, caused by pre-existing conditions.
The Food and Drug Administration is now investigating cases that claim that energy drinks have killed loved ones. Five of these investigated cases cite Monster beverages.
SOURCE: AP
